Despite Rumors To The Contrary, Bend Studio Is NOT Shut Down

Charlie Sexton croons for Bend’s crowds. A little more on Bend Studio: After the fire marshal paid a visit to Bend Studio (and she’s been busy lately, huh?) and tomorrow’s night’s Brooks Williams and Kat Eggleston show was moved to Uncle Calvin’s Coffee House, Uncle Calvin’s Web site erroneously reported…

Both Local Alejandro Escovedo Shows Canceled

Bend Studio is losing its second show in a month, but this time it’s a doctor rather than a fire marshal putting the kibosh on a performance. Alejandro Escovedo has canceled all shows until his August 28 appearance at Antone’s in Austin, according to his MySpace tour schedule. The canceled…

Kings Of Leon To Reign Over The Palladium On October 29

By the early looks of things, it appears as if Dallas is getting its fair share of great shows to pick from come this fall. Now you can add Kings of Leon to that list. The Followill brothers will stop through town, supporting their upcoming album Only By The Night,…

Area New Wave Act Mahteo Is Now Kill The Dance Floor

Local new wave revivalist band Mahteo has changed its name to Kill the Dance Floor. Even though The NuWave Republic EP, the band’s debut, was released just this past February, founding member Rene “Micky” Espinoza said the name had to change: “People used to think that Mahteo was either a…

Catch Sarah Jaffe’s EP Release Show At Dada Tonight

For those of you living under a rock and not already aware of this: 22-year-old area folk powerhouse Sarah Jaffe will be performing at Club Dada tonight in celebration of her just-released Even Born Again EP, which, I’m sure, will be available for purchase at the show. Jaffe goes on…

Poster Of The Week: Holy Moly

Fort Worth’s Holy Moly is promoting its “Cowpunkin Thru Texas Tour 2008” with this intricately detailed silkscreened flyer created by an artist credited as “Troll.” The skull and crossed blackpowder pistols are part pirate flag, part Day of the Dead and all bad-ass, nicely capturing the spirit of the Cowtown…

The Ozz-Man Cometh

In early April, Bruce Corbitt awoke from a late sleep to find a voicemail awaiting him. It was a stranger, a woman who had seen his band, Texas Metal Alliance, perform a gig earlier in the year. She said she worked for the local branch of national concert booking conglomerate…

Testing Their Metal

Twenty bands on three stages? That adds up to a lot of metal. How much? Well, this field guide should help. Below you’ll find the set times for every band on Ozzfest’s bill—along with a 0-10 rating on the band’s metal cred and a brief explanation of why that number…

Line ‘Em Up

I’m not great with numbers, but I know that there was a pretty substantial line outside Club Dada on Friday night to see Black Rebel Motorcycle Club—four wide, actually—and it took up practically a whole city block. And I know that a line like that adds up to a pretty…

Brooks Williams and Kat Eggleston Show Changes Locations

Kat Eggleston If for some reason your Saturday plans call for taking in an acoustic indoors performance in Dallas rather than enduring 14 hours of metal, August heat and Frisco, you might need to read this. The Brooks Williams and Kat Eggleston show has changed its venue—and price. The show…

Last Night: The Hold Steady at The Loft

The Hold Steady The Loft at Palladium August 5, 2008 Better Than: Jay Reatard on $55 worth of acid. The biggest spazz in the best bar band in America. (Noah Bailey) Craig Finn is a total spazz. On stage Tuesday night with his band the Hold Steady, he was seemingly…

Looks Like Weezer’s Gonna Be Coming To Dallas, Folks…

…or so this video that Weezer just uploaded to Youtube would seem to imply. Watch it and see if you, too, can decipher the routing of the band’s tour, which is set to start September 23. OK, hear that? Right at the 1:35 mark? It’s, like, totally this. (Yay!) –Pete…

Cancelled: Emmylou Harris At Majestic Theatre Tonight

I doubt news of this cancellation will wind up on Brooklyn Vegan or Idolator a la Jay Reatard’s stunt last night, but it should be noted that tonight’s show with Emmylou Harris at the Majestic Theatre has been nixed. Here’s why, straight from the Majestic’s Web site: “Due to a…

Arlington’s Melissa Lawson Won Nashville Star Last Night

And it’s notable because, this season, the show’s sixth, is the first one to take place on network television. Unlike previous seasons of the country music singing competition show (basically American Idol for the cowboy hat set), which were broadcast on the cable USA network, this year’s competition was shown…